Apulian Red-Figure Epichysis
This jug with a beaked spout has a strap handle, sharply angled at the top; a modeled lip, with a ridge at its inner edge; handle attachments (plastic female heads) on either side of the spout; a downward-curving shoulder, and a flanged body.
Shoulder: nude Eros kneeling; his right leg is bent beneath him; the other is stretched out behind. He wears a hair covering (kekryphalos), a radiate stephane, a two-drop earring, a single-strand necklace plus a bandolier across his chest, a double bracelet above the knee on his left leg, a four-coil bracelet on his left ankle, and shoes. In his right hand he holds a mirror and, from his left hand, which is held out behind him, drop three white dots. In the field before him is a rosette and also a phiale with white center and outline. In the upper field behind his wings is a phiale. Clusters of three dots and ivy leaves are scattered in the rest of the field.
Around the neck: black tongues. Handle and shoulder: palmette-fan on the handle base, which is flanked on the shoulder by scrolls and palmette leaves with dots in white. Top side of flange at shoulder: egg pattern. Around body: a continuous ivy pattern with white leaves on incised stem. Underside of foot reserved, but with a cross in added red wash and a sketch of an oinochoe (Shape 10) in outline glaze.
After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).
Shoulder: nude Eros kneeling; his right leg is bent beneath him; the other is stretched out behind. He wears a hair covering (kekryphalos), a radiate stephane, a two-drop earring, a single-strand necklace plus a bandolier across his chest, a double bracelet above the knee on his left leg, a four-coil bracelet on his left ankle, and shoes. In his right hand he holds a mirror and, from his left hand, which is held out behind him, drop three white dots. In the field before him is a rosette and also a phiale with white center and outline. In the upper field behind his wings is a phiale. Clusters of three dots and ivy leaves are scattered in the rest of the field.
Around the neck: black tongues. Handle and shoulder: palmette-fan on the handle base, which is flanked on the shoulder by scrolls and palmette leaves with dots in white. Top side of flange at shoulder: egg pattern. Around body: a continuous ivy pattern with white leaves on incised stem. Underside of foot reserved, but with a cross in added red wash and a sketch of an oinochoe (Shape 10) in outline glaze.
After Jentoft-Nilsen, M. R. and Trendall, A.D., CVA Malibu 3 (1990).
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)